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Germany – Ireland · Source editionArticle 8 Shipping, inland waterways transport and air transport

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(1)

(1) Profits from the operation of ships or aircraft in inter- national traffic shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enterprise is situated.

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(2)

(2) Profits from the operation of boats engaged in inland waterways transport shall be taxable only in the Contracting State in which the place of effective management of the enter- prise is situated.

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(3)

(3) For the purposes of this Article the terms “profits from the operation of ships or aircraft in international traffic” shall include profits from a) the occasional rental of ships or aircraft on a bare-boat basis, and b) the use or rental of containers (including trailers and ancillary equipment used for transporting the containers), if these activities pertain to the operation of ships or aircraft or boats.

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(4)

(4) If the place of effective management of a shipping enter- prise or of an inland waterways transport enterprise is aboard a ship or boat, then it shall be deemed to be situated in the Con- tracting State in which the home harbour of the ship or boat is situated, or, if there is no such home harbour, in the Contracting State of which the operator of the ship or boat is a resident.

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(5)

(5) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall also apply to profits from the participation in a pool, a joint business or an international operating agency.

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Source edition
de-ireland-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | signed 2011-03-30 | published 2011-11-07 | Signed: 2011-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07
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Official original2011 PDF; reader from proved font-CMap-only derivative, not the original facsimile
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Original consent law, DE/EN convention, integral protocol and joint declaration; not amended/current law
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2026-10-02
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Unreviewed machine transcription. Original 2011 publication only, not a verified current-law consolidation. No qualified human wording, legal, alignment, indexing, deployment or publication approval. Noindex preview only; noindex is not access control. Published treaty languages: German and English. Original closing on physical page 21 declares both texts equally authoritative. Both bodies come exclusively from the original 2011 PDF. No third language, translation or cross-language paragraph alignment is inferred. English interface; legal source containers carry their own language. Source-proved reversible blank-glyph CMap correction only; no OCR, translation, wording/spacing/hyphen repair. Native spans and coordinate gaps retained; all26 original/derivative renders identical. Law, preamble, execution, signatures, integral protocol and joint declaration: /review/de-ireland-2011-base/. Source links indicate pages, not independently approved paragraph alignment.
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Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals.
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Original source edition; not a verified current-law consolidation. Signed at Dublin 2011-03-30; consent law 2011-11-01; gazette publication 2011-11-07. Treaty entry 2012-11-28, not application; entry notice dated 2013-02-11, published 2013-03-20. Article 32(2) general application from 2013-01-01 is qualified by tax-specific rules and transitional paragraphs 32(3)–(5). Historical original edition only. Later amending protocols signed 2014-12-03 and 2021-01-19 and a 2025 official consolidation are documented in the cached BMF article; none of their amended wording is imported here. The cache is not fresh currentness proof. This new edition does not replace the held 2025 intake or override its central audit. Later amendments, MLI effects and present-day applicability are not certified. Unreviewed machine transcription. Original 2011 publication only, not a verified current-law consolidation. No qualified human wording, legal, alignment, indexing, deployment or publication approval. Noindex preview only; noindex is not access control. Historical original edition only. Later amending protocols signed 2014-12-03 and 2021-01-19 and a 2025 official consolidation are documented in the cached BMF article; none of their amended wording is imported here. The cache is not fresh currentness proof. This new edition does not replace the held 2025 intake or override its central audit. Later amendments, MLI effects and present-day applicability are not certified.
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Citation
BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)
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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | de-ireland-2011-base | de-ireland-2011-base | BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration) | signed 2011-03-30 | published 2011-11-07 | Signed: 2011-03-30 | Gazette publication: 2011-11-07 | Article 8 | en | Pending independent qualified human wording, completeness, currentness, alignment and rendering review. No human approvals. | /library/treaties/de-ireland-2011-base/en/articles/article-8/

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BGBl. 2011 II S. 1042 (consent law); S. 1043–1067 (agreement, protocol and joint declaration)

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